An excerpt (so that one may determine if he agrees or disagrees before reading the full essay):
"Possibly the worst blasphemy — which I will now state — is the idea that the new religion of social justice exists to disguise the vast disappointment over the failure of the civil rights movement to uplift — that is, raise out of poverty, illiteracy, and crime — a substantial part of the black population. In fact, much of the official policy of the civil rights era only made matters worse, especially the well-known failures of the welfare system with all its disincentives to economic striving. So, the well-intentioned people of the Left — a dying breed — are left in dismay and embarrassment, fighting demons, while black America chooses more and more remain an oppositional culture, apart, antagonistic, and increasingly bent on vengeance.
Enter Trump, perhaps the worst figure possible to call bullshit on this vast matrix of dishonesty, . . . . . "
Bull Run by JH Kunstler
DonDiego supposes the Civil War on the horizon is unlikely to comprise even rows of infantry and cannoneers lined up o'er the otherwise serene countryside, . . . more likely vagrants, insurrectionists, urbanites, wastrels, anarchists, ne'er-do-wells, zealots, and true-belivers engaging in metropolitan combat, . . . at least until they run out of metropolises.
DonDiego opines the wilds of Appalachia should provide at least some respite from the initial skirmishes.
Oh, and free speech will be an early casualty.
"Possibly the worst blasphemy — which I will now state — is the idea that the new religion of social justice exists to disguise the vast disappointment over the failure of the civil rights movement to uplift — that is, raise out of poverty, illiteracy, and crime — a substantial part of the black population. In fact, much of the official policy of the civil rights era only made matters worse, especially the well-known failures of the welfare system with all its disincentives to economic striving. So, the well-intentioned people of the Left — a dying breed — are left in dismay and embarrassment, fighting demons, while black America chooses more and more remain an oppositional culture, apart, antagonistic, and increasingly bent on vengeance.
Enter Trump, perhaps the worst figure possible to call bullshit on this vast matrix of dishonesty, . . . . . "
Bull Run by JH Kunstler
DonDiego supposes the Civil War on the horizon is unlikely to comprise even rows of infantry and cannoneers lined up o'er the otherwise serene countryside, . . . more likely vagrants, insurrectionists, urbanites, wastrels, anarchists, ne'er-do-wells, zealots, and true-belivers engaging in metropolitan combat, . . . at least until they run out of metropolises.
DonDiego opines the wilds of Appalachia should provide at least some respite from the initial skirmishes.
Oh, and free speech will be an early casualty.
